Just Got the Twitter Bug

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Last week I went to Scoble's Geek/Blogger Dinner in San Francisco and I realized that I was in the minority because I didn't use Twitter yet.  For the uninitiated, Twitter let's you answers the simple question "what are you doing now?"  I didn't understand the relevance for me because I didn't think anyone cared what I was doing at any particular moment.  But I decided to try it, mainly because of peer pressure and the fact that people that I respect are using it: http://twitter.com/synergist.  This is a perfect example of a viral technology.  As an experiment in social media, I want to map out its viral nature visually. 

If you decide to try Twitter because of this message:

1. Add me to your "friends".
2. Send me a message that you just started twitter and use the keyword TwitterMap in your message.

I will update the map with viral growth.

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